“Boulders and Oak” ( French Les rochers avec chêne [1] , English Rocks with Oak Tree [2] or The Rocks [3] ) - painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), written in Arles in July 1888 . The painting is in the main exposition of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts , in the section of European art. She is one of the most famous exhibits of the museum [3] [4] .
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| Vincent van Gogh | ||
| Boulders and oak . 1888 | ||
| fr. Les rochers avec chêne | ||
| Oil on canvas . 54.9 × 65.7 cm | ||
| Museum of Fine Arts , Houston | ||
| ( inv. 74.139 ) | ||
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History and Description
The painting "Boulders and Oak" was painted in the summer of 1888, when Vincent van Gogh lived in the town of Arles , located in southern France . The Arles period is considered the most fruitful period of the artist’s creative biography [5] [6] . The landscape depicted in the picture was in the highlands of Montmajour ( French Montmajour or Mont Majour ), located a few kilometers north of Arles [3] [7] [8] . The same period includes a series of outline views of Montmagour [9] , which is stored in the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam [10] .
The painting “Boulders and Oak” was painted by Vincent van Gogh in his usual energetic manner of writing, with large strokes of unmixed colors, and thereby conveys his perception of wildlife well. Theo van Gogh (the artist’s brother) liked the painting so much that he hung it next to the Sower painting - a recognized masterpiece of the artist [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Les rochers avec chêne, par Vincent van Gogh (HTML). www.1001tableaux.net. Date of treatment May 14, 2012. Archived on September 20, 2012.
- ↑ Rocks with Oak Tree (HTML). www.vggallery.com. Date of treatment May 14, 2012. Archived on September 20, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Vincent van Gogh - The Rocks (HTML). The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Date of treatment May 9, 2012. Archived on September 20, 2012.
- ↑ 100 Highlights of the MFAH unopened (HTML). The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Date of treatment May 9, 2012. Archived on September 19, 2012.
- ↑ Arles period of Van Gogh's biography (HTML) vangogh-world.ru. Date of treatment May 15, 2012. Archived on September 20, 2012.
- ↑ Biography of Vincent Van Gogh (HTML). www.museum-online.ru. Date of treatment May 15, 2012. Archived on September 20, 2012.
- ↑ Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (Arles, 5 July 1888) (HTML). www.webexhibits.org. Date of treatment May 19, 2012. Archived on September 20, 2012.
- ↑ Edger Peters Bowron, Mary G. Morton. Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . - Princeton University Press, 2000 .-- pp. 172-173. - 238 p. - ISBN 978-0-691-00460-0 . Archived on September 12, 2014. Archived September 12, 2014 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (Arles, p. 13 July 1888) (HTML). www.webexhibits.org. Date of treatment May 15, 2012. Archived on September 20, 2012.
- ↑ The rock of Montmajour with trees, 1888 / Montmajour series (HTML). www.vangoghmuseum.nl. Date of treatment May 15, 2012. Archived on September 20, 2012.
Links
- The Rocks, 1888, Vincent van Gogh , Google Art Project, www.googleartproject.com